Digital security command centres – for fancy?
Across Nigeria, governors have unveiled security command and control centres with fanfare. Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Oyo, Gombe and Edo have invested, or announced investments, in facilities built around CCTV surveillance, drones, communications links, control rooms, data analysis and response coordination. Enugu’s centre is linked to AI-enabled cameras and long-range drones with day-and-night vision; Edo’s […]
Lekki Toll Gate tragedy: Two years later
EXACTLY two years ago, a tragic event that has set the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos aside as a historic monument of sorts took place. A crowd of unarmed youths singing the national anthem was shot at by troops in a bid to quell protests which had lasted for nearly two weeks. The youths called […]
Real reason for extreme hunger
ON March 11, 2022, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, released a report, alerting that 19.4 million Nigerians would experience acute hunger between June and August 2022. The report, produced in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, F-MARD, noted that over 14 million people (including 385,000 refugees), were already […]
Alleged plots against credible elections
FOR the second time in as many months, the Conference of United Political Parties, CUPP, has raised the alarm over alleged plots to scuttle free, fair and credible elections in 2023. Ikenga Ugochinyere, a lawyer and the CUPP Spokesman, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday October 13, 2022. The Conference had […]
Caring for flood victims
FLOODING is a natural occurrence. In civilised parts of the world, one of the jobs of government is to evolve systems of taming routine and predictable flooding to keep the people safe. When routine flooding keeps occurring year after year, it means that government is not living up to its duty. That is the situation […]
Red alert over killer cough syrups
MORE sensitisation is needed to alert the public, especially those at the grassroots level, over the infiltration of our markets by killer Made-in-India cough syrups which have already wreaked havoc in the Gambia. On October 5, 2022, the World Health Organisation, WHO, raised the alarm over four contaminated drugs linked with acute kidney injuries and […]
